Christie hangover for N.J. delegation

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New Jersey Republicans have a Christie hangover.

The state’s delegation to the Republican National Convention, during its morning breakfast, was still completely in the thrall of Gov. Chris Christie’s keynote speech on Tuesday night. They politely listened and applauded several New Jersey speakers but did not engage in any full-throated cheering merely hours after some returned from the Tampa Bay Times Forum to their hotel here.

“I think we all got in here 2, 3 o’clock in the morning last night. I don’t know about any of you, but I think our governor pumped us up last night,” said Sam Raia, head of the state Republican Party.

Each tried to get their shots in at the Democratic leadership in both Washington and Trenton, with Bramnick at one point comparing the voters’ relationship with former Gov. Jon Corzine and President Barack Obama to dating.

“If you remember when you used to have dates … somebody who was really attractive and you thought you hit the jackpot. … And somehow – maybe it was that first night, maybe it was a week later, maybe it was two months later – you started to look at that person with this ‘something’s funky here.’ And eventually you couldn’t look at the person anymore. What happens is you lost respect for that person.”

That happens because the reality of who that person really is, beneath the attractiveness, begins to set in, Bramnick said.

“Look, I’m not one to be negative, but I can tell you that the dating relationship that we’ve had with Jon Corzine and Barack Obama – one’s very wealthy and one’s very pretty, what I mean is that they were very attractive in their own ways – but the substance that we needed to change New Jersey and now to change America – those dates have ended badly.”